Helen and john c hartmann department electrical and computer engineering

Akhila Kandivalasa is a PhD student in the ECE department working on observability for dynamic state estimation in power systems. She grew up near a thermal power station and was always fascinated how those "giant machines" operated. During her undergraduate studies, power systems remained one of her favorites.

Sohom Sen is a PhD student from India who discovered the passion for research during a summer internship at NJIT under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Tao Han and Dr. Durga Misra. That experience clarified that academia and research aligned better with his goals than the corporate path. He was fortunate to receive an offer to pursue his PhD under Dr. Han, and is now based in the UNICS Lab, FMH 414.

Inspiration often sprouts in unexpected places. For electrical engineering students Kermina David '27 and Santiago Garcia '27, the taste of a tropical fruit swiftly ripened into an interest in greenhouses. It then branched into a quest to help farmers manage greenhouse crops more efficiently.

Online education programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) rank among the top 100 in the country, according to the U.S. News & World Report. NJIT earned high marks across degree-granting programs in business, engineering and information technology. 

Rituja Bhattacharya is a second-year PhD student in the ECE department at NJIT, advised by Dr. Cong Wang. Her research focuses on minimalist robotic manipulation for domestic services, motivated by everyday tasks such as cooking, prioritizing durability and affordability. She has also developed general prompting techniques for AI-assisted tool reasoning and design.

From Leonardo da Vinci to Nam Jun Paik to Lillian Schwartz, art and technology have a long and intertwined relationship. Beginning in spring 2026, all NJIT students will have the opportunity to explore this productive feedback loop.

Robots are becoming increasingly mobile and autonomous in busy factories and warehouses, so researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and four other universities are working out how to keep electronic employees aware of wifi networks at all times.

Aditya Kale is an EE Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Marcos Netto. His research focuses on the Koopman Operator theory of Dynamical Systems. Specifically, the open problem of discovering provably optimal observables for complex nonlinear systems.

Raj Adhikari is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at NJIT, advised by Dr. Tao Han. His research focuses on enhancing the efficiency and reliability of data transmission and computation in next-generation intelligent systems such as autonomous vehicles and edge–cloud networks. His aim is to design methods that enable these systems to operate seamlessly in real time, even under network or resource constraints, thereby contributing to safer, more efficient connected environments.

Rupak Bhakta is a second-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working in the Biophotonics Imaging and Sensing Lab with Xuan Liu. His research focuses on deploying advanced interferometric imaging techniques that enable label-free visualization of cellular and nanoparticle dynamics with nanometer-scale sensitivity. Besides research, he enjoys spending time playing video games or watching movies.